Father of Slain Soldier: Trump Didn't Send Promised $25K
October 19,2017
Check was only sent after man went public
The father of a soldier killed in Afghanistan in June says he was "floored" when President Trump promised to write him a check for $25,000—but it never arrived. Chris Baldridge tells the Washington Post that when Trump called a few weeks after his son, Army Sgt. Dillon Baldridge was killed, he told the president that he and his wife were struggling to deal with the fact that their son and two others were killed by a rogue Afghan police officer instead of in battle. Baldridge, a construction worker in North Carolina, says Trump offered him $25,000 after he complained that his son's $100,000 death benefit would go to his ex-wife instead of his parents, even though he can "barely rub two nickels" together.
"He said, 'I'm going to write you a check out of my personal account for $25,000,' and I was just floored," Baldridge says. "He said, 'No other president has ever done something like this.'" But no check arrived in the following months, and Baldridge says Trump also failed to follow through on a promise to have his staff set up an online fundraiser. CNN reports that when asked about Baldridge's case Wednesday, White House spokeswoman Lindsay Walters said the check "has been sent." "It's disgusting that the media is taking something that should be recognized as a generous and sincere gesture, made privately by the president, and using it to advance the media's biased agenda," she said.
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I wants my money!!!!!
Nothing Trump does seems to bother you, does it?
This appears to be just another "Dump on Trump" bit of fake news. Yesterday it was Trump allegedly saying something "insensitive" to a Gold Star mother. Tomorrow it will be something else negative. I need undeniable proof before I will believe anything the left wing anti-Trump media comes up with.
What makes it fake news? The fact that it doesn't fit your preferred narrative?
Here's how the putrid mind of Trump works: Tell a bereaved father of a fallen soldier that you will use your massive wealth in a miniscule way to help him out. Then just don't, and instead send an empty card with the expectation that the poor guy wouldn't want to risk looking like an ingrate who cares more about money than his dead son by going public. And if he does go public, the Sixpicks of the country are right there to rub some more salt into the man's wounds. The term deplorable is fitting.
To quote trump:
"Sad"
If you need "undeniable proof," then give unlocking your eyes and ears a try.
That's a high complement, coming from you.
And Trump’s response was “I’m going to write you a check for $25,000”. How long do you suppose it takes the Trump brand to make 25k? A few seconds maybe? There is no doubt that he said it, since there is precedent for him making grandiose gestures and not living up to them.
Yet you readily believe spurious claims and conjecture invented by the right wing media. Or do you claim to have only repeated stories from right wing media that had "undeniable proof"? If the right had "undeniable proof" of all the things they've accused Hillary of she would obviously be in jail, but alas, the Republican majority in both the house and Senate still haven't even charged her with any crime. dozens of investigations turning up nada, yet the right still wants to paint her as the wicked witch of the left. She's been accused of colluding with Russia, running child sex ring out of a pizza parlor, having Seth Rich and dozens of other acquaintances murdered, being responsible for soldiers deaths in Benghazi and some nefarious thing with her private email server though the right can't ever actually define what nefarious thing she did. So I guess the right has a double standard, demanding hard evidence of Donald's wrongdoing (even though we have mountains of circumstantial evidence of collusion and undeniable proof of the Russian government working to get him elected) but love to swim in the pool of evil Hillary conjecture.
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So they weren't perfect, but they certainly weren't just trying to screw over Haiti, they did help, just not as much as they thought they would. But I guess the old saying is true, no good deed goes unpunished.
Apparently Trump promised someone, as president of the United States no less, a sum of money and then reneged. This is not the first time he has done something like this.
Period.
He is a noted low-life in that way.
So you think that your opinion that the gold star mom in the car story is "fake news" , makes the story about the 25,000 dollar promise fake news?
Is that the "logic" you are going to stick with here?
He was surprised it didn't arrive? That's like believing a street thug will pay back the money he robbed you of. His tax returns will be his end and he knows it, it literally will take an act of Congress to bring them into the light of day.
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I'm wondering who in their right mind would think Trump or anyone would want to call up a soldier's widow and insult her while she is suffering from the death of her husband?
This is all a bunch of BS.
Yesterday I listened to a half dozen Gold Star Parents who complimented him for what he said. I remember one father talking about how he and his son had some very heavy duty talks about what his son was signing up for when the decided to join the Military and said he would have been proud to have received a call from the President, had he gotten one, saying exactly what Trump is accused of say.
I hope there are not too many people on this site who are falling for this, because it makes no sense at all to do so, except a nutty woman wants to put crap in your brains.
Calm down, kids. CNN reported that Trump sent Dad the promised $25,000 check but now CNN is complaining that it took too long.
I found it odd that a bereaved father was talking/complaining about money with the POTUS in a phone call that lasted only approximately 15 minutes in the same month his son died. I can't imagine what it feels like to lose one's child, but I do know that if a POTUS called to offer his condolences, the last thing I'd talk to him about would be money or bitching that my ex is my son's beneficiary. It's possible that the son kept his mother as his beneficiary for a good reason. Maybe she knew how to manage money and had more than 2 nickels to rub together?
It was mailed after it became a news story, where would it have been if it was still under the radar, in the bank of tRump.
I don't know, and neither do you or anyone else. ASSuming is not an admirable trait.
We do know the timeline so stop trying to explain it to us, we can judge his actions by his past words and actions. He lies and doesn't follow through on promises, its pretty clear.
Small correction to your post, the son's death benefits went to the sons ex wife not the fathers. I've seen it before it's usually a result of the mbr forgetting to update their paperwork rather than a thoughtful financial decision.
When I was in a mobility unit, we had to check our records to make sure all that stuff was updated. I'm surprised they didn't have him check it before he deployed
As do we at my unit and it is in general orders, but as they say you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.
Lol! Complaining that it took too long? You say like it would have happened if it hadn't have gone public. Could I interest you in a really sharp looking bridge? I don't normally do this, but I like you so I'm going to make you a really incredible offer on it. Seriously, I'm going to sell it to you at my cost.
I believe CNN was contacting the parents or families of every single US soldier or sailor or airman who has been killed during the Trump presidency. It is a relatively small number so they got hold of all of them. One guy mentions that he was promised money by Trump. Is he a good guy or a bad guy?
That is not the story in question here.
Without the reporters it would not have come out now, and the check would not be "in the mail" .
Obviously.
I wonder if they gave Obama the same courtesy.
Why all of a sudden now? We all know why now.
The media got a nuclear case of butt hurt when Trump won. They predicted Hillary, tried to push Hillary in with their coverage and it backfired on them big time. Now it's Butt hurt central for media like CNN, plain and simple and it is unconscionable for them to be doing this primarily for that reason.
And make no mistake, that IS the reason this is happening now. Not some BS excuse for moral reporting high ground.
He sent it the day it became public. I'm a little confused by all of you Trumpers. You take great pride in loving his 'anti-PCness, his assholiness. His meanness and hate-mongering are what tickles the base and his supporters, and yet you want us to ignore that part of his defective character when we judge his actions! He lies every day too! Nothing interests him but him, something painfully obvious every day in every way and you can't expect us to forget any of this because we won't, we will call it out.
It's because he is Not-Hillary.
That's all it is. The man could drown his wife in a bath tub and they still wouldn't give a shit
True.....I don't believe I would talk about my finances to the POTUS under these circumstances unless asked. However, perhaps, he told an aide to make certain the check was sent and the person didn't do it right away. I would think that the POTUS has more to think about than if a check was sent.
DING DING DING WE HAVE A WINNER!! Those were my thoughts exactly. Who in the hell is stupid enough to think that Mr. Trump has his checkbook on him at all times? Okay so if you know he doesn't, who in the hell thinks Mr. Trump writes his own checks, puts them in and envelope, licks the stamp, seals the envelope and runs it down to the mail box to make sure it got done?
That's what I thought.............anything to bitch.........
As you so APTLY put it, " I would think that the POTUS has more to think about than if a check was sent. "